About Mr. James D.
Mr. James D. Ealley trained in Baltimore. He earned a B.A. in Government and Public Policy from the University of Baltimore in 1995 and completed his J.D. at the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1997. Those early years in Maryland set the stage for a profession spent practicing in state and federal forums.
His first legal work came at small firms. In 2000 he joined Bishop, Daneman & Simpson, LLC as an associate. He moved to Goodman, Meagher & Enoch, LLC in 2003, continuing routine litigation and transactional assignments regular to local practices. The work built a realistic sense of courtroom process and client counseling that he carried into later roles.
In 2005 he left personal practice to turn out to be General Counsel at The Magellan Group, LLC. That in-house post expanded his knowledge in corporate matters and day-to-day legal management. He returned briefly to company life in 2010 as an associate at Robert A. Ades & Associates before setting up his personal practice the following year.
Since 2011 he has been the owner of The James D. Ealley Law Office. He holds licenses in Maryland and earlier than the Federal Circuit. His expert memberships track a mix of local and subject-particular interests. He has belonged to the Maryland State Bar Association and the Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association since 2001. He joined the Calvert County Maryland Bar Association in 2011 and the St. Mary’s County Bar Association in 2012. Locally, he serves on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Calvert County Chamber of Commerce, a position he began in 2013 and continues to maintain.
Colleagues and clients describe him as continuous and practical in handling regimen and contested things. His path—small firms, corporate counsel, back to private practice—has left him comfortable on both transactional and adversarial questions. He appears frequently in Maryland courts and is to be had for work that calls for Federal Circuit admission.
He runs a solo practice that displays those diverse experiences. He concentrates his practice on things springing up in Maryland and in hearings before the Federal Circuit, including bankruptcy and business-associated issues.
